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Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs, up from 2.5 percent a year ago
The Decoder · By Maximilian Schreiner ·
The Brief · written from 2 sources
- Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of freelance projects at professional quality on the Remote Labor Index (Scale Labs and CAIS).
- Opus 5.5 scored 21.3% and GPT-6 Astra 20.8% on the same benchmark.
- A year ago the top score on the index was 2.5%, according to The Decoder.
Why it matters
The Remote Labor Index measures AI performance on real freelance work rather than synthetic tests, so the jump from 2.5% to 41.3% signals rapid gains in automating paid project work. Sources note that areas like product design and animation remain weak.
Who’s affected
- Teams evaluating AI models for freelance-style production work
- Fable 5.2
- Opus 5.5
- GPT-6 Astra
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Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41.3 percent of real freelance jobs at professional quality on the Remote Labor Index, more than double the next-best systems Opus 5.5 and GPT 6 Astra. A year ago the top score was 2.5 percent. Areas like product design and animation remain a weak…
Timeline
Scale Labs and CAIS publish Remote Labor Index results showing Fable 5.2 at 41.3%
The Decoder
Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs, up from 2.5 percent a year ago
Techmeme
Scale Labs and CAIS' Remote Labor Index: Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of freelance projects at professional quality, above Opus 5.5's 21.3% and GPT-6 Astra's 20.8% (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)